Still love #cricket and can’t wait for the #Ashes. And this is a seriously good interview with Steve #Finn www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth

Really interesting study on reporting crime ‘by foreigners’ in #Germany www.dw.com/en/german-me...

🇬🇪💪 This is the fight of the Georgian people for freedom from corruption & authoritarianism. Almost a year since the pro-Russian party consolidated its authoritarian power through fraudulent elections. 💚 We stand with the protestors against the increasing authoritarianism.

Seems pretty reasonable english.elpais.com/economy-and-...

#Marske, north east #England, #Teesside, showing the kind of spirit the rest of the country could do more of

‘Weighing no more than a large strawberry’, nightingales cross the Sahara twice/year ‘as part of a 6,000-mile round-trip between its spring breeding grounds in England and overwintering ground in west Africa. But their journey is becoming increasingly fraught and their destination less welcoming.’

Latest episode: How eco activists end up rubbing shoulders with oil barons and big business at the #COP climate summit. Insight from Josh Appignanesi whose new film "Colossal Wreck' is out next week. @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Super-rich, greedy vested interests have an outsized influence on our political system. So, if we want a fairer economy, we need to work together. Find out how you can take action every week by joining our mailing list. taxjustice.uk/sign-up-to-o...

Farage Vs Polanski? Choose your side. join.greenparty.org.uk

The city that reveals Britain's biggest problem: there's nowhere to live – video

Great read. Don’t stop, because we need more Gary Nevilles and more journalists opposing the far right public discourse, as the likes of Orwell showed almost a century ago

The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’

Latest from me: the era of the £100+ gig ticket spells cultural disaster www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library goes #OpenAccess manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10... #History 🗃️

Prominent neo- #Nazi, Holocaust denier arrested just outside #Munich in #Tutzing

Is meat the new oil? Five lessons from fossil fuel governance for industrial meat governance By @cleoverk.bsky.social www.sei.org/perspectives...

I wrote about Robert Jenrick's embrace of blood and soil nationalism for @bylinetimes.bsky.social "The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us are supposed to be worried about" bylinetimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

Leaked car industry paper: carmakers’ EU demands would cut EV sales in half - "If the Commission capitulates to these demands, it will only hand a further competitive advantage to Chinese automakers.” www.transportenvironment.org/articles/lea...

European Parliament votes to ban terms like ‘burger’ and ‘sausage’ for plant-based products - Green MEP Anna Strolenberg: “The meat lobby is trying to weaken its innovative food competitors" www.greenqueen.com.hk/eu-parliamen...

Another image from this summer Greenland adventures, this time during a moody day with a bit of fog, and the signature red sails.

Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes

Zack Polanski delivers first conference speech as Green Party leader www.channel4.com/news/zack-po...

A hen spends her life in a cage no bigger than an iPad , unable to spread her wings . This #WorldFarmAnimalsDay , let's change that . For less than £1 , you can help free a hen & your donation gets a 50% boost all week long . Let's do this: farmkind.giving/cagefree

FT: 1-1. Great point. #Boro far from their best, it was a clunky first 45 & rode their luck but a gritty fightback to force a deserved late leveller with a cracker. Unbeaten run goes on, still top, showed resilience but a rash of yellows. We'll have to watch that. #UTB

Great point for @mfc.co.uk in context and plenty of other games went our way, so we remain clear at the top. Can't complain. Safe journey back everyone. #UTB #Boro #EFL

#DB has a new boss, who at least seems optimistic about the future of train travel in Germany. Most people in the UK (elsewhere?) still probably think #DB German #trains run ok, but only 63.4% of long-distance trains are on time. That’s why train from #Munich to London is always a gamble nowadays

Table-toppers and history-makers. Never before have #Boro started a season with five wins from six. Big win against a good side. And Edwards' big calls again pay off. Sene tireless in the second half. Brilliant finish for crucial second goal. Makeshift defence stood firm.

Tomorrow…

There are ‘about 270 species of solitary #bee and 25 species of #bumblebee – that are in real crisis and urgently need our help. Many of these threatened species are becoming rarer every year.’ But not #honey bees

Championship roundup: Hansen’s stoppage-time strike earns Boro point at Preston

will be doing some more general columns for the guardian going forward. this one is on remigration and the evolution of a far-right pipe dream into mainstream discourse. I promise they won’t all be this depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Newcastle City Council has voted in favour of a motion to ask its Cabinet to withdraw from a controversial waste incinerator project at Teesworks. And congrats to @leighsus.bsky.social on his wedding weekend. Yes, he was penning a story when he should have been writing his wedding speech!

Much of the media continue to allow Farage to elide the figures for all immigration with asylum seekers, and the reality for asylum seekers, who are prevented from working, with other immigrants. He is repeatedly enabled to blow immigration issues out of all proportion.

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus): This large species of falcon is found in nearly all regions of our planet with the exception of extreme polar areas. Recorded travelling at 320km/h (200mph) in a dive, this is the fastest creature on our planet. Awesome image taken by Paul Ash in Cornwall, UK.

Farage repeating - yet again - the simple lie that most new migrants don't work. Completely unchallenged by Kuenssberg, yet again. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

Why community ownership is a key part of an anti-fascist economics - and how it could help beat Reform. Great piece by @morganj0nes.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

"We're going to take the fight to power and wealth, and we're going to turn this country around." New Green Party Leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social speaks to Sky News about how you can help our growing movement. Join us today: join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=s...

🚨 #Boro closing in on signing of long-term target David Strelec Deal not done yet & minor details being resolved but major breakthrough in last 36 hours 🗣️ When fresh reports were put to Edwards, he said: 'There might be an element of truth in that...' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/254287...

🔁 Not for the first time in the early weeks of the season, Rob Edwards' half-time #Boro changes worked a treat. 🗣️ And afterwards came a fascinating and detailed explanation of his double substitution at the break today 👇 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/254288...

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: me and Uncle Eric and assorted hacks on the first day of the new #Boro space age Cellnet Riverside Stadium. (Note Eric has the only mobile in Teesside). #UTB

“I spent a lot of time looking at the evidence on [the impact of meat] and it was overwhelming,” he says. “Ten billion people can’t live sustainably on this planet if we are eating anything like the level of meat consumed in a western diet. The only answer is we just eat less meat, dairy and eggs.”

🔴 TRANSFER LATEST: #Boro are in advanced talks with Lausanne over deal for Senegalese striker Kaly Sene. The 24-year-old has already scored six domestic/European goals this season. Boro also tying up loan deal for #NUFC defender Matt Targett... Read⬇️

Marjoram: One of the absolute best plants for pollinators! This is one of a series of short videos in a YouTube playlist highlighting some of the best plants to grow if you want to attract bees, butterflies, hoverflies and more. youtu.be/gisVGo-Yirk

🔴 Rob Edwards’ ‘Land of the Giants’ warning as his #Boro side head to Carrow Road this afternoon to face Norwich… Read here…⬇️

Tax wealth not work at The Budget

They really try to whip it up.

Greg Jackson, "Our biggest offshore wind farm is paid not to generate energy 71% of the time" "40% of all of the wind energy we could have from Scotland is paid to be not generated" "We need to fix this because this is what is pushing people's bills up"

Opportunity knocks for the Green party: can the candidates seize it? You decide

I really wonder what would need to happen to disrupt the British media‘s current obsession with immigrants. I am serious. What would it take to talk about something else? Putin invading a few more countries? Another Prime Minister being hounded out of office? Global economic collapse? A tidal wave?